Rainbow Brite (real name: Wisp) is a young girl who helps to bring color to the world, accompanied by the seven Color Kids, Twink the sprite, and Rainbow's horse, Starlite.
Rainbow Brite and her allies frequently have to deal with the schemes of Murky Dismal, a short, mustachioed villain who, along with his oafish henchman Lurky, tries to make all of Rainbowland as dark and gloomy as his lair in The Pits.
Quite prominent in
DeviantART, where most of the fanart features Rainbow Brite as a scene kid or an
animesque Magical Girl.
Tropes:
- All Your Colors Combined
- Belligerent Sexual Tension - Rainbow Brite and Krys acted like this in The Movie, with Rainbow as the Tsundere and Krys as the Jerk With A Heart Of Gold.
- Cool Horse - Starlite certainly thinks he is. Actually, every horse in the show is a Cool Horse.
- Darker And Edgier - Sure, The Movie starts with a nice and cheerful song about spring and waking up and being energetic and the first 15 minutes or so go on just like any other Rainbow Brite episode... and then the robot horse arrives and the cheerfulness goes right out the window not to be seen until the very end. And believe me, it does get dark before that.
- The Eighties - Just look at the wardrobe, dude...
- Everyone Is Satan In Hell: Yeah. The show was accused of being "Satanic" by loonies because it contains "occult" symbols like stars and rainbows. And here we just thought it was eye candy to keep the show's hyperactive audience entertained.
- Everythings Better With Rainbows
- Everythings Better With Sparkles
- Everythings Better With Princesses - Inverted in The Movie. The Dark Princess is a spoiled Robber-Baron sorceress who wants to shanghai Spectra, a star-sized diamond without which the cosmos will wither and die. Oh, and she also uses her (lifeless) pet gemstone as ship fuel when things don't go her way...
- Freudian Excuse - It is revealed in the episode "Mom" that when Murky was an infant, he loved colors, and he expressed this by coloring on the walls. This angered his mother, who told him, "You're going to get rid of every bit of that color if it takes you all day, if takes you the rest of your life."
- Hair Of Gold - Rainbow
- Heartwarming Orphan - Wisp, the girl who would become Rainbow Bright.
- Girliness Upgrade- The new doll series.
- I Dye Grass - The basic point of the show.
- Live Action Adaptation - "Rainbow Brite: San Diego Zoo Adventure"
- Mac Guffin Girl - The baby in the origin episode, who is actually the Sphere of Light.
- Merchandise Driven: And how!
- Meganekko - Shy Violet
- Mini Dress Of Power
- Minion With An F In Evil - Lurky
- Mordor - The Pits
- The Movie - "Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer"
- Remember The New Guy - Stormy, Moonglo and Tickled Pink show up in episode four with absolutely no explanation. In the same episode, Starlite looks at Murky's Paper Thin Disguise and muses, "I thought I knew all the Colour Kids."
- Token Minority - Indigo
- Toy Ship- Rainbow Brite and either the muggle Brian or Krys from The Movie.
- Really Seven Hundred Years Old - According to an offhand remark in an early episode, possibly everyone in Rainbowland, and definitely Murky at least.
- Shrinking Violet - Shy Violet.
- Spring Is Late - In Star Stealer.
- Sugar Bowl
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair - Most of the case, Rainbow and LaLa being exceptions.
